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CGCGCGCGDG
Kids wear white garters and smell like their mothers
CG
Whose husbands and fathers alike
DC
Drink black beer in the same public houses
CDG
Smelling of smoke and strong whiskey
CGDG
Mammies and daddies and skipping ropes
CG
Lectures from priests, living in hope
DC
They've not mistaken the brand of their coats
CDG
Paid for by their spiritual teachings
CGDG
A busy year this, the streets running red
CG
How many sent to a nuptial bed
DC
And how many sent home to a winter of graves
CDG
And how many wait in for the slaughter
CGGCD
Oh the holy ground
CD
Ceud mile failte, there's saints and there's scholars to see
GCD
Oh the holy ground
CD
The far away hills ain't as green as they once used to be
EmAmEmAmDG
It's Easter again and we cannot forget
CG
Brothers and sisters and all that was said
DC
So practice your pipes, stand proud in the wet
CDG
But the eyes of the world are upon you
CGDG
God in his mercy has given us men
CG
To lead us to peace but they can't bring an end
DC
To the profits that pay off the lease on the land
CDG
We still send them over the water
CGDG
Seventeen years and Kelly's a man
CG
Who stands on the street with a gun in his hand
DC
He's Protecting the pipers that play in the band
CDG
While the enemy waits with an army
GCD
Oh the holy ground
CD
Ceud mile failte, there's saints and there's scholars to see
GCD
Oh the holy ground
CD
The far away hills ain't as green as they once used to be
EmAmEmAmDG
Dia le hEireann, suckle the empire
CG
Dia le hEireann, suffer the loss
DC
Of the green to the blue while the media feeds
CDG
On the blood and the pain and the hatred
CGDG
Father walks home on the colourless night
CG
And the organisation has blinded his sight
DG
His wife and his kids are sleeping tonight
CD
In the arms of sweet Jesus and Mary
GCD
Oh the holy ground
CD
Ceud mile failte, there's saints and there's scholars to see
GCD
Oh the holy ground
CD
The far away hills ain't as green as they once used to be
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